Join the FVSU family as we celebrate a milestone in the career and character advancement of our students, when they successfully create the FVSU curricular regimen in a wide variety of fields and step forward to be leaders in the workplace or graduate school. More than 200 students will be conferred graduate and undergraduate degrees.

FVSU's Spring Commencement will be held, Saturday, May 11 at FVSU's Health and Physical Education Complex(HPE) at 9:30 a.m. Guests are asked to be seated at 9:00 a.m. and the processional will begin at 9:15 a.m. This is a ticketed event. Overflow seating will be available at the C.W. Pettigrew Center auditorium.

This year's speaker will be Rodney D. Bullard, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Chick-fil-A, Inc. and Executive Director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation.

Before coming to Chick-fil-A, Rodney served as an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting complex criminal cases. For his service, the United States Attorney General presented him with the Department of Justice Director's Award. Prior to this role, Rodney was selected as a White House Fellow, the nation's most prestigious public service Fellowship. As a White House Fellow, Rodney was placed at NASA working directly for the NASA Administrator. Rodney also previously served at the Pentagon as a Congressional Legislative Liaison in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force.

Rodney has received numerous awards including Duke Law Young Alumnus of the Year (2016); The Most Admired Atlanta Non-Profit CEO (2017); one of the 500 Most Influential Atlantans (2018); and bestowed the lifetime-honor of an "Outstanding Georgian" by the Georgia Senate (2019).Rodney is an alumnus of the Air Force Academy, Duke Law School, the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business and Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He recently released his first book, Heroes Wanted: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out.